----- Original Message -----
From: "Moorad Alexanian" <alexanian@uncwil.edu>
To: "glenn morton" <mortongr@flash.net>; "James Mahaffy"
<mahaffy@mtcnet.net>; <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: Possible impact of ID
> The best way to understand something is to know what it is and what it is
> not. ID states that the whole thing did not come without the aid of a BIG
> BRAIN! It is the role of science to incorporate that knowledge into their
> tool box. At least that would avoid a lot of nonsense being said about how
> the universe and man came into being. That is already an important
> contribution, even if it were to be the sole contribution
So? Most Christians in science knew this without the aid of the ID movement
and knew it before the ID movement was ever formed. I simply don't see that
they have made a contribution here. And, their evidence for design is not
the only place God can act as a designer. What they are doing is saying that
if evolution occurred, God couldn't have designed the biological entities.
That simply isn't true. God could have designed the molecular system such
that it would give rise to the biological entities. I have suggested that
and before me, Howard Van Till has suggested it. God designing a system
which would evolve from nothing would also be design but the ID folk would
reject that as design. So, what they are doing is limiting God to designing
biological entities in ways that they approve. I don't think God needs or
wants
their approval.
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